CVE-2026-106057 — patool before 4.0.6 OS Command Injection on Windows via shell_quote_nt
patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shell_quote_nt fails to escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes in archive …
Published: 2026-10-07 · CVSS: 8.5 · CVSS 4.0
patool before 4.0.6 contains an OS command injection vulnerability on Windows because shell_quote_nt fails to escape cmd.exe metacharacters or embedded double quotes in archive filenames. Attackers can supply crafted filenames like report&calc.gz for single-file formats run with shell=True to execute commands with patool process privileges.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7